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DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Voter ID is not even always about preventing fraud.
The top reason that the National Democratic Institute gives for proving citizenship, photo identification, and other election integrity measures is to strengthen national confidence in our institutions. 
They constantly bemoan the loss of trust in institutions and how democracy is under attack, but won't lift a finger to address the root cause.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2037929524256804916

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Ugh.
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Clint Brown @DissidentClint
The hotline request was at 1am. No one knew it was coming. How many staff would see it and have time to get with their boss to set the wheels in motion? A LOT has to happen logistically in a short window at an inaccessible hour.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2037920680650661987

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - If it was 100-0 deal, why did it happen at 3 AM with 5 Senators? 
Did YOU even know the vote was going to happen until it was done?
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2037891399518142515

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - To be fair, the vote may have happened without his knowledge. 
If so, I'd like to see some outrage from him in that end.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2037889275912675435

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - And as to the funding for ICE, support staff wasn't funded. Mass deportations would have been made impossible. Reconcilation process may have extracted additional terms of restriction. 
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Mike Howell @MHowellTweets
This would cause some major issues for ICE and @IngrahamAngle is on the mark here.  
1- yes it takes away ICE funding and puts it on a standalone, the loneliest funding stream possibly for the future.  It also opens up ICE to conditions imposed via Republicans in reconciliation, something already signaled.  Not to mention the giant scalp the left is taking here in proving they can scare Rs into abandoning ICE.  OBB was a surge of money for a mission desperately needing scaling to meet the challenge of the amount of illegals, now they want to put its regular funding stream in perpetual question. 
2-  this would cause irreparable harm w/in ICE.  It essentially would create two separate agencies. Allowing Congress to dictate how an agency’s resources can be operationally used in this way will set a horrible precedent.  The litigation this opens up will be crippling, and the left is better situated with the judiciary and external litigation functions to make that happen.
3- it gives Democrats the major victory of essentially taking money from ICE out of OBB since regular funding in jeopardy moving forward.  This will be a huge boon for their base turnout as compared to a Trump base that is frustrated on pace of deportations.  It doesn't "diffuse" as much as it rewards Democrats and RINOs. 
4- "don't talk about mass deportation" was the noise, this is the legislative signal 
5- takes the wind out from the sails of the Save America Act by subjecting it to the same uncertainty of the reconciliation process.  We need to keep Save America Act on floor not to run away from it. 
There is a reason why Democrats will like this.
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Bonchie @bonchieredstate
Commentators need to get their talking points straight. 
ICE is funded over and above Biden levels through 2029 because of last year’s four-year appropriation passed by those “many Republicans.”
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2037888955606331715
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